More project ideas for next year: further to this post about writing an operating system kernel in Haskell, it looks like some crazy dudes are doing similar things using Python. Ladies and gentlemen, we present: Cleese, and the delightfully-named Unununium [python-list].

Apparently Cleese started with the idea to “make the Python intepreter a micro-kernel and boot directly to the Python prompt.”, but it doesn’t look like there’s been any movement there over a year, and hasn’t released any files.

Unununium looks interesting, and very much under development. The introduction states that components and a unified filesystem namespace (a la Plan 9) are key goals.

OK, maybe all this is too flakey and out-there for a decent project, but nonetheless, nice to know it’s happening.